LOTF Chapter 4; blog 4

Title: Painted Faces and Long Hair
Issues on the island
Perspective: Jack

Those little kids never do anything except for play and sleep. When they wake up it’s all about the ‘beastie’. While playing in the beach two boys, Maurice and Roger come over and stomp on the little kids sand castles. Roger goes far enough to even throw rocks at one child. Finally though, I have the idea to camouflage myself into the creepers so that I can kill the pig. But, while I was out we could have been rescued but I left my job to keep the fire going to go kill the pig. There was a bad thing and a good thing that happened. I killed the pig but everyone was still mad because I wasn’t there to keep the fire going. When we got back from hunting we were covered in gouts. We were all happy but so nasty we were covered in grossness and the swarthiness of our skin has gotten so much darker. Everyone else thought we were impalpable because we forgot about the fire. Once everyone got over it we all pitched in to make another fire, except one person. Piggy, all I wanted were his glasses but he was too stubborn to give it up. That’s why I don’t like him. He’s stingy and has belligerence when he doesn’t get what he wants. He annoys me so much and Simon always stands up for him. The blatant disgust I have toward Piggy is obvious. Once we caught the pig and brought it back for supper I gave everyone a piece except for him. Simon thought that was so cruel that he gave him his piece. I didn’t like that so I threw a piece at Piggy in anger. Right now no one likes me and I always feel left out.

LOTF Chapter 3; blog 3

Huts on the Beach
Please! Just make this work
Perspective: Simon
Dear Diary,
Today, like always, Jack was being rapt. Ralph and I were working out butts off making huts for the littleun’s. The huts keep falling down so Ralph and I get angry. But with no help from Jack it makes it worse. As we work and have vicissitudes the other boys splash around in the water. We find it’s important to build huts for the younger boys because they are afraid of the beastie and they need a place to feel safe. Ralph kept getting upset with Jack and the rest of the hunters because they were too busy goofing off that they couldn’t kill a single pig so we have no food. Ralph, being the leader, decides to assign various jobs for the boys. I feel that since the boys didn’t do their job we’re all in danger. If their jobs are not done and we don’t get rescued we could possibly be in grave danger. I feel like I’m in an opaque room. I feel like Ralph and me are the only ones doing work and we can’t be the only workers on this island there are to many people for the two of us to handle. Finally, I realize I’m starting to change; I’m starting to stand up for myself and I feel more comfortable. Showing this I go on my own expedition to the top of the mountain. I need to be alone, there’s just too much going on. I susurration to my self how I can’t wait to be off this island. It’s as if Jack has a compulsion over himself. He doesn’t want to be rescued until he can find an animal and kill it. I think that we would all be most successful if he just found one pig and killed it with out hesitating. Everyone is getting hungry and too cranky and we need out protein. We are all guys, right?

LOTF Chapter 2; blog 2

Fire on the Mountain

The Friend That Stands up for me
Perspective: Piggy

After waiting and waiting Jack, Ralph, and Simon come back. To make us all more organized and listen better we decided the conch is the talking shell. We can only talk if we have it in our hands.
I feel that I need to start standing up for my self. I yell about how no one knows we crashed on an island. How we could be stuck here forever. After I raise my opinion everyone is silent. They seem scared but all I did was tell the truth. To top it off one of the younger boys started talking about how he saw a “beastie” looking thing the night before. Everyone’s face got scared. The older boys stopped the errant scared boys. They were martyred from what we the younger boy told them. My buddy Ralph had the idea he wanted to start a smoke cloud for if or when a plane comes by to give us help. More of the stronger and fit boys went to collect wood. I was left to keep count of how many people were there and make sure everyone was there afterwards. Jack induced me into giving him my glasses to put into the fire to make it larger. I fought with him but soon I lost. He recriminated me of never helping with anything after I didn’t do my job. The little boy that talked about the “beastie” was missing. Simon decided he was going to stand up for me and tell everyone how I helped out by giving my glasses. Simon is a true friend and once he stood up for me I like he was officious to me. I felt like Jack doesn’t appreciate me being here until Simon stood up for me after I stood up for myself.

LOTF Chapter 1; blog 1

The Sound of the Shell
The land of the lost
Perspective: Ralph

The island is full of trees, there’s a scar. A scar from what you may ask? From the plane crash. The trees were pressed down and the fronds were all around me. I see a body of water along with that water, I see another boy who seems to look my age only, chubbier. I introduce myself; he doesn’t say his name until he talks about what kids in class called him. His name made me snigger, it was Piggy. We start to wander and wonder, we wonder what happened to the other boys that were on the plane. We continue our search and find a pool. I take my clothes off and see how deep it is. Turns out it was deeper than I thought. I jump in and wait for Piggy to join me. He throws of his togs and jumps in next to me. While walking we found a conch shell. It was pink and white. Piggy decided to use it as a makeshift trumpet to find the rest of the boys. He blows it and boys rush over to us. The oldest ones were 12 years old and the youngest were around 6. A boy named Jack walks over to us. He starts taunting Piggy. We find out Jack is the precentor and then we choose a leader. All the choir boys vote for Jack but luckily all the other boys vote for me. I think that I won the vote because I look like more of a leader, and I’m not as stuck up as that Jack kid who thinks he has enormity. I’m going to take care of these boys the best cause I will treat them all equally and as if the were siblings. Jack, a choir boy named Simon and myself go on an expedition up a mountain to find out if what we are on is a island or a piece of land. After hours of search we get to the top. It was an island and we could see another one from the top. On their way back we find a wild pig stuck in the creepers. Jack pulls out a knife and starts chopping down the vines around it. This is just the start of great friendships.